Watch ‘Live! with Kelly’! USAA guy a contender for co-host

Cool! San Antonio has a contender for a “Live! with Kelly” guest co-host spot.

Matt Drake, who works in website support at USAA and lives with his wife and baby daughter in New Braunfels, won a Top 25 spot in the show’s big “Coast to Coast Co-Host Search.”

Cross your fingers that he goes further and is among the 10 semifinalists to be announced on “Live! with Kelly” at 9 a.m. Monday (on KSAT here).

Once those are determined, the viewer voting starts. From there, the five finalists will be announced on July 11. They then will fly to New York on July 15 and compete that week on ‘Live! With Kelly.’ The co-host chosen will get his or her time in the spotlight on July 24.

In the cute and clever video that got him noticed, Drake, who has done community theater and small bits in movies and TV – three episodes in “Dawson’s Creek,” for instance, where he played a high school student — has his darling daughter Tennessee (seen in photo with Matt above) sitting in for Kelly in a mock co-host stint. (Here, it’s ‘Live! with Shelly” instead of Kelly.)